Nice Things

Stories examining class, race, gender, and sexuality through the lens of physical spaces and who is allowed to occupy them.

Stories traversing identity, sexuality, and human connection across the industrial towns and satellite villages of Northern England.

Opening with the Commonwealth Prize-winning "Lech, Prince, and the Nice Things," the collection weaves through teenage sexual awakening, family secrets, and post-pandemic isolation. Characters grapple with class divisions, discrimination, and desires they barely understand themselves. Unflinching and deeply human, these stories capture pivotal moments when lives quietly but irrevocably change course.